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Alecanochiton marquesi Hempel, 1921 (Coccidae: Alecanochiton)

Alecanochiton marquesi Hempel 1921: 144. Type data: BRAZIL: Sao Paulo, Angatuba, on Coffea sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Sao Paulo: Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil; accepted valid name

Families: 7 | Genera: 14

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Countries: 6

Structure: Body of adult female oval and convex, yellowish, or pinkish to whitish grey in young individuals, darker grey in older specimens. Margin thick and darker than rest of dorsum. Dorsal surface covered with small particles of a transparent material, which also forms a fringe around margin. Length 2.0 mm, width 1.5 mm and height 1.25 mm. (Hempel, 1921) The glassy waxy material that covers the insect body is brittle. (Dix-Luna, et al., 2019) Slide-mounted adult female oval to elongate oval, with no distinct stigmatic clefts. Anal cleft rather short, about 1/8th of body length. Crawlers elongate oval, cover in a thin layer of glassy wax, greyish to yellowish in color. (Dix-Luna, et al., 2019)
Biology: Specimens of A. marquesi are found on twigs and peduncle of leaves and fruit. They are often associated with sooty molds that grow on leaves and twigs and wherever their excreted honeydew accumulates (Dix-Luna, et al., 2019) On Melastomataceae, A. marquesi predominantly occupies nodes, internodes, and meristems of seedlings and saplings, with females occasionally found on leaves and rarely observed on adult trees. (Dix-Luna, et al., 2019) Infestations of ~20 or more scales were often tended by Wasmannia auropunctata and Azteca sp. (Dix-Luna, et al., 2019)
General Remarks: Description and illustration of the adult female given by Hodgson (1994a).